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| TWN 2015 Spring Evening Seminars   

  

 
TWN sponsors a walk-in series of workshops on various production topics each spring and fall. All are either sliding scale or free, and are presented at various locations.  

   

Wednesday, March 4th at 7 PM, Reception at 6:30 PM 
Shawn Batey and THE CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM 
Batey's film takes a critical look at Harlem's history, early development, and its present transformation. Shawn Batey, TWN Workshop alum, will present her documentary and talk about the making of it. 

City College of New York 
Rm 291 Shepard Hall 
160 Convent Avenue @ 138th St.  
New York, NY 
Cosponsored with the Documentary Forum@CCNY, the Black Studies Program at CCNY, and the Black Documentary Collective. 
FREE, but RSVP to [email protected] 

 

Tuesday, March 10th 6:30 PM 
Planning your TransMedia Documentary with Ann Bennett
You can't just make a documentary film anymore. You have to have your concept on multiple platforms--interactive websites, games, phone apps and more. Ann Bennett, multi-platform producer for Thomas Allen Harris' THROUGH A LENS DARKLY and Digital Diaspora Family Reunion project, tells you how to start planning and budgeting your multi-platform project and what funders are looking for. Third World Newsreel 
545 Eighth Ave, Suite 550 
New York, NY 10018 
RSVP to [email protected]   

Monday, March 16th 6:30 PM 
Sound Recording - Tips for a Better Audio Result 
Basic concepts, how to's, best practices and what equipment to get, with new gear demos and more. Bring your questions and your audio problems. Led by filmmakers and sound recordist JT Takagi.  

Third World Newsreel 
545 Eighth Ave, Suite 550 
New York, NY 10018 
Tuesday, March 24th 6:30 PM 
Distribution - Planning Ahead  
Don't be scrambling around as you finish your film. Instead, develop your audience ahead of the film's release. Learn what to think about, what to research and start planning for, while you are still planning production.  Led by TWN Distribution Director Roselly Torres.

Third World Newsreel
 
545 Eighth Ave, Suite 550 
New York, NY 
RSVP to [email protected]   

Tuesday, March 31 6:30PM
 
Budgeting Your Production - Best Practices 
How to budget your documentary, drama, transmedia production - forms and guidelines, and much more.  With Ann Bennett, multi-platform producer for Thomas Allen Harris's THROUGH A LENS DARKLY and Digital Diaspora Family Reunion project.

Third World Newsreel

545 Eighth Ave, Suite 550
New York, NY
RSVP to [email protected]  
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Unless specified, workshops are sliding scale $10-20. 
Register now by emailing [email protected].

 

More coming up in April, stay tuned!    

 

 

| TWN Recommends    

 

  

New York Women in Film & Television Presents Immigrant Women: Sharing Our Voices Through Film Series -- Starting this Friday, February 27th!

The series will present the works of women immigrant and first-generation American filmmakers and focus on the immigrant experience within the five boroughs of New York City. This initiative will present one screening per month beginning in February and go through June 2015. 

 

  
JUDITH: PORTRAIT OF A STREET VENDOR by TWN Workshop Alumna Zahida Pirani, distributed by TWN

 

Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor is a documentary short that takes the audience on an intimate journey into the daily life of Judith, a street vendor from Guatemala who lives and works in New York City. Judith exposes the routine obstacles and struggles she and her fellow immigrant vendors face daily on the city's streets and reveals her own hopes and aspirations as an immigrant worker, mother, activist and community organizer. 

 

CLAIMING OUR VOICE by Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel, distributed by TWN
Claiming Our Voice is a short documentary film by Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel sharing the stories of Andolan, an organization founded and led by South Asian immigrant women low-wage workers as a means to support each other and collectively organize against exploitative work conditions. The film follows the women as they create, rehearse and refine acts for their first popular multi-lingual theater performance, directed by YaliniDream. Claiming Our Voice seeks to break community silence by allowing women to (literally) set the stage for how their stories will be told.

 

  
Friday, February 27th, 6:30pm

 

Maspeth Town Hall 

53-37 72nd Street
Maspeth, NY 11378

Q&A reception with the filmmakers and women from the documentaries following the screening.

more info 

 

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Fouzia Najar's SEMIOTICS OF ISLAM Screening at Queens World Film Festival

TWN Production Workshop Alumna Fouzia Najar will be showing her new short film SEMIOTICS OF ISLAM at the Queens World Film Festival! Inspired by Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen, SEMIOTICS OF ISLAM combats Islamophobia while highlighting the mainstream media's role in (mis)representation.

Fouzia Najar is a Kashmiri-American filmmaker and multimedia storyteller from Buffalo, NY. She recently earned an M.F.A. in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, and before that, studied history and media at Carleton College. She has worked for award-winning production companies Kartemquin Films and Jigsaw Productions, as well as networks like The Weather Channel, ABC News and CNN. Fouzia most recently worked on a documentary series that examines the death penalty in America and is currently developing a documentary on post traumatic stress disorder in South Asia.

Wednesday, March 18, 6 pm
PS 69 Jackson Heights
77-02 37th Avenue
Queens, NY 11372
    

  

| Film Grants & More

Upcoming Deadlines for Documentary Filmmakers
more info

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MFA Program in Film at the City College of New York
A 2-year, graduate-level program with ready access to the finest talent and production resources of NYC. As a selective, hands-on program, City College's MFA Program offers Documentary and Fiction tracks in an affordable and accessible public university, and opens doors to the independent film world of NYC and beyond.
Deadline: March 1st, 2015
more info

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UnionDocs Summer Documentary Intensive
The UnionDocs Summer Intensive is a 5 week program for a select group of emerging filmmakers from the US and abroad. The program consists of screenings, seminar discussions, production instruction, professional development sessions, critique, mentorship, many guest artist master classes, and weekly visits to relevant sites around New York City.
Deadline: March 2nd, 2015
more info

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Asian Women Giving Circle 

The Asian Women Giving Circle has a Request for Proposals (RFP) for its Women, Arts & Activism Fund, to support Asian American women-led projects that use the tools of culture, the arts and education to raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that impact Asian American communities.  

Deadline: March 13, 2015

 

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Independent Len Submission

Independent Lens is seeking submissions of completed or near completed programs for broadcast during the October 2015 - June 2016 season.  

Deadline: March 27, 2015
more info 

 

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Ford Foundation 
Ford's Social Issue Film Funding Initiative will provide approximately $16 million through an open-application process to filmmakers and media makers around the world who are creating documentaries that address urgent social issues.   
Deadline: Open 
 

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Jerome Foundation

Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to individual film and video artists living in New York City who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production.

Deadline: Open

more info

   

  

 

| TWN Thanks

TWN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Film Preservation Foundation and an anonymous donor of the Peace Development Fund, as well as individual donors.

TWN is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the creation, appreciation, and dissemination of independent media by and about people of color and social justice issues. 
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